Sanal Edamaruku is the president of the Indian Rationalist Association(IRA) and founder president of Rationalist International. He is a well known author, columnist and speaker at conferences and universities in India and abroad, appears frequently in various Indian TV channels and is considered to be the most prominent and outspoken advocate of rationalism in India.

During the Eighties and Nineties, he exposed India’s leading godmen and godwomen (Satya Sai Baba, Pilot Baba, Balti Baba, Chandra Swami, Swami Sadachari, Mata Amritanandamayi, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar etc) and sharpened the eyes of the public for their fraudulent tricks and their mechanisms of functioning.